Over at Alternet, Sarah Jaffe recently covered the looming student loan crisis; with youth unemployment soaring even as the costs of college rise while available grants drop, many of the people who graduated this May and June have no jobs, and no prospects of work. Within months, their student lenders are going to come knocking […]
For those that haven’t been following, there’s a huge protest movement going on in Greece at the moment. People have taken the squares of Athens in an attempt to avoid having an IMF “bail-out” forced upon them (a situation that Flavia has written about here with regard to this decades-long practice in Latin America). These […]
Sorry I am a day late but I’ve been having network card problems since yesterday. Today’s listicle chock full of news from El Sur!
I am currently in the lovely city of Chicago, and as I often do when I travel, I started my morning by reading some local news outlets. I always like to see what’s happening in the places I visit, even if I am mostly shuttling between airports and hotels and meetings and things. (And I […]
Brace yourselves! Because I am going to do away with this idea that Social Media is horizontal, democratic and a valid means to get your story out there. Moreover, I am about to show you how Social Media is just another White, kyriarchical, status-quo upholding, oppressive medium. You know, just like the rest of the […]
Readers may have noticed that Tiger Beatdown is a little more awesome lately. And there is a very awesome reason for that! We have a whole new team, these days. In addition to the ever-lovely and stalwart Garland Grey — whose guest blog at Bitch, the charmingly entitled “Sexual Inadequacy,” you should all be reading […]
A youthful, Republican political star seems to be in the making: Massachusetts State Representative Ryan Fattman. Yesterday, Mr. Fattman was part of a debate with Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Local news outlets are hailing Ryan Fattman as a young, Republican hopeful with a […]
It’s time for a new installment of our weekly feature of news from El Sur! To reiterate my call from last week, my list of sources and issues is likely to be incomplete, so, I’d like to put out a call for Latin American bloggers/ writers/ content producers who write in English about Latin America, […]
So, friend. Let us say that you are a director. A director of films! Films for entertainment purposes! But, sadly, no-one is paying enough attention to your films, for the public, they are crude and tasteless. What do you do? How do you handle yourself? How do you advance your art? Well, if you are […]
The Federal Communications Commission just released a substantial report on the state of media communications in the United States. You can take a gander at the full report in .pdf, if you feel so inclined. There’s a lot to tease apart in this extremely lengthy document, but The Consumerist highlighted an issue of particular news […]